Toy



March 28, 1939.

A. W. GARD TOY Filed Sept. 1'7, 1937 2 Sheet-Sheet 1 INVENTOR. Muf

BY ATTORNEYS.

March 28, 1939. w, D 2,152,542

Q35 BY A T TORNEYS.

Patented Mar. 28, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

The invention relates to a toy, a toy constructed of card-board or paper-board, or other relatively thin sheet material.

The toy is particularly, although not exclusively, designed to carry advertising legends and displays. It is inexpensive, of light weight, and of such shape that it may be readily enclosed in an envelope of letter size, or in a carton with breakfast food, or other goods being distributed to the public.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. I is a view of the toy in plan; Figs. II and III are views in plan of the two pieces or parts that are assembled to form the toy; Fig. IV is a view in plan, illustrating that the component parts of the toy may be adjusted in various relative positions; and Figs. V to IX inclusive show five of the many various positions in which the toy may be adjusted.

The toy of the invention consists in a sheet of paper-board or other suitable sheet or plate material which is cut, or otherwise fashioned, into the form of an obiect, or into the form of an animal, or a human being. Faces or other board, to improve the desired eflects and appearshoe. The thin body of the toy, normally extending in common plane, is adjustable into diflerent positions. whereby various shapes, postures, or movements of the thing or person represented may be visualized. In providing for such adjustment, the paper-board body of the toy includes a plurality of flat, hinged sections that may be folded or bent relative to one another. In the accompanying drawings, I illustrate the toy in a conventionalized form of a man, and a consideration of the invention in this exemplary embodiment will convey to those skilled in the art the various forms which lie within the fleid of the claims appearing at the end of the following description:

As above mentioned. the toy shown in the drawings is in form and decoration representative of a man. including a body I of circular shape, a head 2, two arms 3 and 3a, and two legs 4 and 4a. In this case the toy is advantageously formed of two flat pieces al and b (Figs. II and III) of relatively thin paper-board; the head 2, arms 3 and 3a, leg to and three-quarters of the circular body I are embodied in piece a; and the piece 1) includes leg 4 and one-quarter of the body I. The piece a is slit, at 5, inward from the periphery of body i to its center, and on a line continuous with the upper edge of the leg la. 55 At the inner end of leg to the paper-board is features may be printed in color on the papercreased or otherwise treated to facilitate folding or bending of the leg relatively to the body I, on

a line 6, and similar provision is made in piece b by means of a crease to. Each leg is additionally creased on an oblique line 1, providing inter- 5 mediate the length of the leg a hinge-line, so

to speak. The two sections of the leg are adapted to be adjusted, with one section being swung or folded relatively to the other. And the body is creased on lines 8 and 9, so that the body I 10 of the assembled toy comprises a plurality of flat sections (in this case three, Fig. I) meeting on hinge-lines 6-611, 8 and 9, and it will be noted that such hinge-lines extend radially of the body I and angularly to each other.

The assembly of the two paper-board pieces a and b is effected conveniently by means of glue. The piece b includes a portion It, as shown by shading in Fig. III, that comprises a segmental continuation of the portion of body I included M in such piece b. In making the assembly the piece b is positioned beneath the piece a, with the two legs 4 and 4a aligned, and with the quarter segment of the body portion I included in piece b arranged to complete the circular continuity of 3 the body portion included in piece a. When the two pieces a and b are so positioned (as shown in Fig. I), the segmental portion In of piece b is glued or otherwise secured to the body portion of piece a that lies between slot 5 and hinge-line 80 8. In such assembly all portions of the toy lie in substantially common plane, with the hingeline 6 of piece a overlying and registering with the hinge-line 6a of piece b.

The several sections of the leg members and 85 body of the toy may be folded either upward or downward on the hinge-lines 6-6a, i'l, 8 and 9, whereby the toy may be adjusted to show the man represented thereby in various amusing postures, or to indicate various physical actions of 40 the man. Figs. V to IX show five of the many various effects which may be obtained and it will be seen that in each of the adjusted positions of the structure the several body portions lie in substantially common plane.

Of course, the arms of the man rather than the legs, or both the arms and the legs, may be made adjustable. And, of course, the toy may be made in other forms, representing animate or inanimate objects.

In Figs. I to IV, I show that a legend or a display may be printed or otherwise applied to the surface of the toy. The letter A indicates such a legend or display. It will be perceived that the display A in its entirety appears on the body and leg portions embodied in the part or piece a (Fig. II) of the toy. and is fully visible so long as the toy is flat. that is, in the position shown in Fig. I. when, however, the leg la is swung about either of the hinge-lines I or I, it will be perceived that a portion of the displaythe lower portion of the letter A in this casemay be lost to view. In order to prevent Such hiding of a part or the display, I provide on the piece I) (Fig. 111) of the toy a duplication of a portion of the display. In this case the lower portion of the letter A is duplicated. See Fig. 111. In the assembly the fragmentary lower portion of the letter A on piece b is so oriented with the complete letter A on piece a that the leg 4a may be folded on either of the hinge-lines 8 or 0 without hiding the displayed letter. The showing in Fig. IV will afford a clear understanding of the thing in mind.

I claim as my invention:

1. An article of the class described comprising a body including two sections of paper-board overlapped and assembled one upon the other, each of said sections including a body portion and a limb extending therefrom, the body portion of one of said sections extending through substantially 270 with respect to a center, and the body portion of the other section extending through substantially 90 withrespect to such center, said assembled sections being creased and folded on lines extending radially with respect to such center and providing a plurality of flat, segmental portions movable relatively to one another on such radial lines, the limb on one of said paper-board sections overlapping a-segmental portion of the board section. and the limb on the last-named section underlying a segmental portion of the body of the other section, and each of said limbs including two portions angularly movable one relatively to the other. i

2. The structure of the next-preceding claim in which the exposed surfaces of said overlapped sections of paper-board carry a display and the surface of the section that is normally covered by the other section carrying a fragmentary duplication of such display.

ARTHUR W. GARD.

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